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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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